TOKYO : The display comes with a price tag to match its monster size - about 11 mn yen or US$100,000. But Sharp Corp.'s 108-inch (2.7-meter) high-definition display, the world's biggest liquid crystal display on commercial sale, has found its first customer, a downtown Tokyo movie theater. The display, shown to reporters on Thursday ahead of the theater's opening Saturday, was embedded into a lobby wall near the escalators, running preview trailers, including...

If there's anyone in the world who can give the glam ladies like Lindsay Lohan and Kareena Kapoor some competition on the 'size-zero' front, it's the nondescript television, which is going thinner by the day. From being fat, the cathode ray tube (CRT)-fitted machines, now come lighter and slimmer, with liquid crystal display LCD and plasmas displays. Yet, they remain the quintessential 'idiot' box. But all that's set to change. A clutch of R&D in the works is all set...

TOKYO: Japanese consumer electronics manufacturers are planning to expand production of flat-panel televisions for sale in foreign markets. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, known for its Panasonic brand, plans to double output capacity for plasma TVs in Europe and the United States to more than two million units in the year to March 2007, a news report said on Sunday. The company will boost the capacity of plants in the Czech Republic and Mexico by converting...

SEOUL: South Korea's Samsung Electronics on Monday unveiled what it says is the world's slimmest LCD (liquid crystal display) TV. The new product, measuring only 6.5 millimetres (0.26 inch) thick, is thinner than any other existing TV set, and even slimmer than most mobile handsets, Samsung said in a statement. Its thickness is one seventh of Samsung's "Bordeaux 850" LCD TVs, which is currently the thinnest on the market, the company said. The new product,...

SEOUL: South Korea's LG Display said it has developed a liquid crystal display (LCD) television panel that is thinner than a pencil, describing it as the world's slimmest. The panel, which can be 42 or 47 inches wide, uses an edge-lit light emitting diode (LED) backlight system that allows it to achieve a thickness of just 5.9mm (0.2 inches), LG Display said in a statement. The world's second biggest LCD maker said the product weighs 6.1 kg (13.4 pounds) and 7.3 kg, about half as...

SEOUL: South Korea's Samsung Electronics on Monday unveiled what it says is the world's slimmest LCD (liquid crystal display) TV. The new product, measuring only 6.5 millimetres (0.26 inch) thick, is thinner than any other existing TV set, and even slimmer than most mobile handsets, Samsung said in a statement. Its thickness is one seventh of Samsung's "Bordeaux 850" LCD TVs, which is currently the thinnest on the market, the company said. The new...

SHANGHAI: LG Display Co Ltd, the world's second-biggest maker of large LCD screens, expects its share of China's flat screen TV panel market to rise to 40 percent next year compared to 35 per cent this year, an executive said on Wednesday. The growth is expected to come from strong demand from millions of Chinese splashing out on new TVs and appliances for this summer's Beijing Olympics, Shanghai-based Vice General Manager Jeffrey Kim said in an interview. "Compared...

SEOUL: South Korea's LG Display said it has developed a liquid crystal display (LCD) television panel that is thinner than a pencil, describing it as the world's slimmest. The panel, which can be 42 or 47 inches wide, uses an edge-lit light emitting diode (LED) backlight system that allows it to achieve a thickness of just 5.9mm (0.2 inches), LG Display said in a statement. The world's second biggest LCD maker said the product weighs 6.1 kg (13.4 pounds) and 7.3 kg, about...

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Co and Sony Corp on Tuesday began shipping panels for large-sized flat screen televisions from the newest production line at their liquid crystal display (LCD) joint venture. The eighth generation line at the venture, called S-LCD Corp, makes panels of 46 inches and 52 inches measured diagonally from corner to corner. "Our sights are now on LCD TV in the 50-inch class and we aim to lead that segment," Chang Won-kie...

SEOUL: South Korean business conglomerate Samsung Electronics has garnered a 10.3 per cent market share in global Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) monitors in the third quarter ended September 30, 2004, displacing US major Hewlett-Packard (HP) as the second largest LCD manufacturer in the world. The company had recorded a 9.7 per cent market share in the global LCD monitor segment during the second quarter ended June 30, DisplaySearch, global flat-screen research group said in its...

TOKYO: Japanese mobile phones already let users shoot films and share them with friends. It may not be long before the images go another step -- becoming completely three-dimensional. Japan's Hitachi Ltd has developed a lightweight 3D display that can potentially be adapted for mobile devices such as telephones. The gadget, using what is known as stereoscopic vision display, weighs only one kilogram (2.2 pounds) and resembles an upside-down, multi-angular pyramid full of...

OSAKA: Panasonic Corp became the world's first television manufacturer to have rolled out a total of 300 million TVs, the leading Japanese consumer electronics maker said. Panasonic, which changed its corporate name last week from Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, said the production threshold was achieved on the 56th year since the company began producing black-and-white cathode-ray tube TVs in 1952, one year before full-scale TV broadcasting started in Japan . ...

TOKYO : Sony Corp. said Thursday it will launch the world's thinnest and lightest 40-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) television, seeking to trump its rivals ahead of the key year-end shopping season. The new ZX1 model, part of the firm's popular Bravia series, is just 9.9 millimetres (0.39 inches) thick at its slimmest section Weighing 12.2 kilograms (26.9 pounds), it can be hung on a wall like a framed painting. Equipped with a fast wireless...

TOKYO : The display comes with a price tag to match its monster size - about 11 mn yen or US$100,000. But Sharp Corp.'s 108-inch (2.7-meter) high-definition display, the world's biggest liquid crystal display on commercial sale, has found its first customer, a downtown Tokyo movie theater. The display, shown to reporters on Thursday ahead of the theater's opening Saturday, was embedded into a lobby wall near the escalators, running preview trailers,...

SHANGHAI: LG Display Co Ltd, the world's second-biggest maker of large LCD screens, expects its share of China's flat screen TV panel market to rise to 40 percent next year compared to 35 per cent this year, an executive said on Wednesday. The growth is expected to come from strong demand from millions of Chinese splashing out on new TVs and appliances for this summer's Beijing Olympics, Shanghai-based Vice General Manager Jeffrey Kim said in an interview....

MUMBAI: Philips Electronics India on Tuesday said it will start manufacturing LCD (liquid crystal display) televisions in India by December-end. "We would opt for a third party to make our LCDs. However, we will have control over the manufacturing and the components would be sourced by us," Philips Electronics India Vice President S Nagarajan told media. About 1,30,000 LCD television sets were sold last year, according to an analyst. The sales...

TOKYO : Sony Corp. said Thursday it will launch the world's thinnest and lightest 40-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) television, seeking to trump its rivals ahead of the key year-end shopping season. The new ZX1 model, part of the firm's popular Bravia series, is just 9.9 millimetres (0.39 inches) thick at its slimmest section Weighing 12.2 kilograms (26.9 pounds), it can be hung on a wall like a framed painting. Equipped with a fast wireless connection,...

OSAKA: Panasonic Corp became the world's first television manufacturer to have rolled out a total of 300 million TVs, the leading Japanese consumer electronics maker said. Panasonic, which changed its corporate name last week from Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, said the production threshold was achieved on the 56th year since the company began producing black-and-white cathode-ray tube TVs in 1952, one year before full-scale TV broadcasting started in Japan...

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Co and Sony Corp on Tuesday began shipping panels for large-sized flat screen televisions from the newest production line at their liquid crystal display (LCD) joint venture. The eighth generation line at the venture, called S-LCD Corp, makes panels of 46 inches and 52 inches measured diagonally from corner to corner. "Our sights are now on LCD TV in the 50-inch class and we aim to lead that segment," Chang Won-kie said in a...

TOKYO: Japanese mobile phones already let users shoot films and share them with friends. It may not be long before the images go another step -- becoming completely three-dimensional. Japan's Hitachi Ltd has developed a lightweight 3D display that can potentially be adapted for mobile devices such as telephones. The gadget, using what is known as stereoscopic vision display, weighs only one kilogram (2.2 pounds) and resembles an upside-down, multi-angular pyramid...